Issues in food allergy and intolerance, coeliac disease, gut disorders, eczema, 'free from' and all allergies and sensitivities
Boots UK do not offer IgG food intolerance testing – which is, as is summarised here, regarded by the immunological, dietetic and wider scientific community as useless – but Boots Ireland do. Strange then, that Boots WebMD, on their How…
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First, look for a study to come along, on which you can peg a press release. This one might do. It looks at the association between dichlorophenols – chemicals used to chlorinate water – and food allergic sensitisation, ie IgE-mediated…
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I’d heard a few mutterings that Andy Murray, like his friend and tennis rival Novak Djokovic, had been making adjustments to his diet – and now we have some confirmation. In a press conference with the media ahead of the…
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So this week’s news is that NICE has published the first evidence-based guidelines for the diagnosis and assessment of food allergy in young people and children. Here’s a link. The papers have it covered, and pretty well. Here’s The Telegraph,…
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Yesterday’s story here in the Express about unorthodox food hypersensitivity tests frustrated me a bit. Once again it’s the unsatisfactory tactic of using an inappropriate patient as a case study. In previous examples, such as the example in the Times…
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I want to reproduce a summary section from the Wheat Hypersensitivity Report here, in full: What are the gaps in our knowledge? It is clear from a recent survey that a number of people consider themselves to be intolerant or…
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Testing for food hypersensitivities is a confusing business. Here’s a summary of what the medical profession can do: 1. Coeliac disease can be tested for effectively through a number of blood tests and a biopsy. 2. Food allergies can be…
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In posts earlier this week, I questioned the validity of the Flour Advisory Bureau’s Wheat Hypersensitivity Report, written by a team at the University of Portsmouth, and criticised the media’s reporting of it. The most dislikeable follow-up piece of writing…
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My first post on February 14th explained how a press release from the University of Portsmouth about their Wheat Hypersensitivity Report, which was commissioned by the Flour Advisory Bureau, a body representing the British flour and milling industry, was faithfully…
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21st January 2010 saw a press release fall into my in-tray from the University of Portsmouth’s press department. It opened: “Too many people are self-diagnosing food allergies and could be restricting their diet unnecessarily, according to a new report by the…
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